2000 Summer Paralympics Medal Table
A record of 122 countries (or 123 delegations including independent athletes from Timor-Leste) participated; 68 countries won medals, of which seven won a medal for the first time. A total of 1,657 medals were awarded during the Sydney games: 550 gold, 549 silver, and 558 bronze. Among these performances, over 300 world and Paralympic records were set. The host country, Australia, topped the table with more golds and more medals overall than any other nation, and achieved its record medal count. Great Britain won the most silvers, with 43, and tied Australia for the most bronzes, with 47. The medals were designed by the royal goldsmith and jeweller Stuart Devlin. They feature the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Opera House, surrounded by the Games Main venues. The reverse face shows the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and the Games logos.
There were numerous athletes who contributed multiple medals to their national tally. In the pool these included Béatrice Hess of France who won seven golds, Mayumi Narita of Japan who won six golds and a silver, Siobhan Paton of Australia who won six golds in individual events, and Stéphanie Dixon of Canada and Hong Yan Zhu of China who each won five golds. On the track Tim Sullivan of Australia won five golds, and Tanni Grey-Thompson of Great Britain won four.
Medal table
The ranking in this table is based on information provided by the IPC and is consistent with IPC convention in its published medal tables. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won (in this context, a "nation" is an entity represented by a National Paralympic Committee). The number of silver medals is next considered, followed by the number of bronze medals. If nations remain tied, they are ranked equally and listed alphabetically by IPC country code.
With a few exceptions, each event contributed one medal of each type to the table (although for team events, multiple physical medals were actually awarded). All judo events awarded two bronze medals, one to each of the losing semi-finalists. The men's 100 m backstroke S8 event awarded two golds to equal winners. In the intellectual disability basketball event, although three medals were initially awarded, the gold was later stripped from the Spanish team due to a disqualification for cheating.
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Australia (AUS)* | 63 | 39 | 47 | 149 |
2 | Great Britain (GBR) | 41 | 43 | 47 | 131 |
3 | Canada (CAN) | 38 | 33 | 25 | 96 |
4 | Spain (ESP) | 38 | 29 | 38 | 105 |
5 | United States (USA) | 36 | 39 | 34 | 109 |
6 | China (CHN) | 34 | 22 | 17 | 73 |
7 | France (FRA) | 30 | 28 | 28 | 86 |
8 | Poland (POL) | 19 | 23 | 11 | 53 |
9 | South Korea (KOR) | 18 | 7 | 7 | 32 |
10 | Germany (GER) | 16 | 41 | 38 | 95 |
11 | Czech Republic (CZE) | 15 | 15 | 13 | 43 |
12 | Japan (JPN) | 13 | 17 | 11 | 41 |
13 | South Africa (RSA) | 13 | 12 | 13 | 38 |
14 | Russia (RUS) | 13 | 10 | 12 | 35 |
15 | Netherlands (NED) | 12 | 9 | 9 | 30 |
16 | Iran (IRI) | 12 | 4 | 7 | 23 |
17 | Mexico (MEX) | 10 | 12 | 12 | 34 |
18 | Italy (ITA) | 9 | 8 | 10 | 27 |
19 | Denmark (DEN) | 8 | 8 | 14 | 30 |
20 | Switzerland (SUI) | 8 | 4 | 8 | 20 |
21 | Hong Kong (HKG) | 8 | 3 | 7 | 18 |
22 | Nigeria (NGR) | 7 | 1 | 5 | 13 |
23 | Egypt (EGY) | 6 | 12 | 10 | 28 |
24 | Brazil (BRA) | 6 | 10 | 6 | 22 |
25 | New Zealand (NZL) | 6 | 8 | 4 | 18 |
26 | Portugal (POR) | 6 | 5 | 5 | 16 |
27 | Tunisia (TUN) | 6 | 4 | 1 | 11 |
28 | Belarus (BLR) | 5 | 8 | 10 | 23 |
29 | Sweden (SWE) | 5 | 6 | 10 | 21 |
30 | Thailand (THA) | 5 | 4 | 2 | 11 |
31 | Ireland (IRL) | 5 | 3 | 1 | 9 |
32 | Hungary (HUN) | 4 | 5 | 14 | 23 |
33 | Greece (GRE) | 4 | 4 | 3 | 11 |
34 | Cuba (CUB) | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
35 | Ukraine (UKR) | 3 | 20 | 14 | 37 |
36 | Slovakia (SVK) | 3 | 5 | 5 | 13 |
37 | Israel (ISR) | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
38 | Algeria (ALG) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
39 | Austria (AUT) | 2 | 7 | 6 | 15 |
40 | Norway (NOR) | 2 | 6 | 7 | 15 |
41 | Iceland (ISL) | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
42 | Belgium (BEL) | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 |
43 | Finland (FIN) | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 |
44 | Chinese Taipei (TPE) | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 |
45 | Estonia (EST) | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
46 | Kenya (KEN) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
47 | Peru (PER) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
48 | Ivory Coast (CIV) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
49 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Jordan (JOR) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Zimbabwe (ZIM) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
52 | Faroe Islands (FRO) | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
United Arab Emirates (UAE)‡ | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
54 | Argentina (ARG) | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
55 | Slovenia (SLO) | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
56 | Lithuania (LTU) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
57 | Kuwait (KUW) | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
58 | Bahrain (BRN) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Panama (PAN) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
60 | Azerbaijan (AZE)‡ | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH)‡ | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Yugoslavia (YUG) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
63 | Latvia (LAT)‡ | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
64 | Libya (LBA)‡ | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Palestine (PLE)‡ | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Philippines (PHI)‡ | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Puerto Rico (PUR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Venezuela (VEN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (68 entries) | 551 | 548 | 558 | 1,657 |
‡ First-time medal-winning country
See also
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External links
- International Paralympic Committee Archived 2003-02-18 at the Wayback Machine